Seraphine vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Seraphine
based on 6,976 Seraphine vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Seraphine vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Seraphine vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Seraphine
Advice to Win Against Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Seraphine vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Seraphine in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several vital Seraphine versus Maokai matchup stats that may help us realize the differences between the pair. Seraphine’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Seraphine may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Maokai..
Seraphine often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Seraphine and Maokai
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Who is Better, Seraphine or Maokai?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Seraphine usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Seraphine makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Seraphine does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when facing one another, Seraphine also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Seraphine into Maokai.
Additionally, Seraphine has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Seraphine vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Seraphine is a trash counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Seraphine against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Seraphine to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Seraphine on average picks up more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Seraphine versus Maokai build include Bloodsong, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Seraphine combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Seraphine had an average winrate of 47.7% battling Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Maokai as Seraphine, Seraphine players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Triple Tonic, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Seraphine vs Maokai LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Seraphine are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.